爱豆社区 River Studies and Leadership Certification

Offered in partnership with the , the introduces students to the multidisciplinary nature of river-related professions through its unique combination of classes and real-world experiences. Participating undergraduate and graduate students complete complete coursework in science, policy, geographic information systems (GIS) and river safety; enlist in a river-based course or internship; and present research findings or a capstone project summary in person at an RMS event, such as the biennial River Management Symposium or through an article published in the quarterly RMS Journal. Students enrolled in the program have opportunities to participate in regional and national events, and receive news, resources, and jobs curated for current and aspiring river professionals.  

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What Can You Do A River Studies and Leadership Certificate?

Students who complete this certificate program have a competitive advantage in careers associated with any and all aspects of environmental education. Here are just some of their career choices:

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Course Requirements

The River Studies and Leadership Certificate is an interdisciplinary program that combines learning about river science, geographic information systems (GIS), policy and river field experience with a chosen emphasis in one of three areas: river science, river-based policy, or river-based education, recreation and tourism. RSLC students demonstrate 鈥渞eal-world鈥� application of their knowledge and skills through professional experience or an internship with a river project. The River Studies and Leadership Certificate program is structured as follows:

Core Courses (4 courses):

Students must successfully complete approved* courses in the following subjects:

• Geographic Information Systems (1 course)
• River Science (1 course)
• River Policy (1 course)
• River Safety (1 course) ()

Emphasis Courses (2 courses):

Students must take at least two approved* courses from ONE of the following emphasis areas:

• River Science
• River-based Policy and Management
• River-based Recreation, Education, and Tourism

Professional Experience Requirement

In order to enable students to become effective leaders and river professionals, one of the requirements of the River Studies and Leadership Certificate is that 鈥渓earning must be applied in a professional context鈥�.  This requirement may be met through a credit-earning internship, paid internship, paid professional experience, independent study or course-related professional experience.  The experience must encompass a minimum of 90 hours of work (or 2 credit-hours) and will be reviewed and approved by the River Studies and Leadership Certificate Committee to certify the adequacy of the experience for the professional experience program requirement.  Students with relevant, recent professional or internship experience may request that those experiences be used to fulfill this requirement. 

Oral or Written Presentation Requirement

Students are required to either present aspects of their work at either 1. an RMS Symposium, trip or conference hosted by RMS or partners, or 2. write an article for the RMS Journal about their experiences. For RMS Journal submissions, students should work with their RSLC advisors to make sure the article is consistent with Certificate requirements. In addition, articles should steer away from topics that duplicate the findings or reflections of previously-published articles. Articles may:

• Describe or report on a topic related to a research paper you鈥檝e written or the results of a research project.
• Reflect on an immersive river course, internship, or experience attending (and possibly presenting your work at) the River Management Symposium or other RMS-sponsored events.

Why this program?

This immersive workshop introduces students to mono-printing as an expressive foundation for relief and mixed-media printmaking. Through hands-on demonstrations, guided studio practice, and group critiques, students will explore both traditional and experimental approaches to mono-printing, including additive and subtractive inking, layering, stenciling, and ghost printing.

Emphasis is placed on creative risk-taking, sustainable studio practices, material exploration, and personal visual language development. Students will leave with a cohesive body of prints, a working sketchbook, and practical skills applicable to future printmaking and mixed-media work.

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What will this program look like?

DAY 1 鈥� Foundations + Controlled Exploration

• Welcome Introductions, Images + Demo
• Exercise 1: Direct Mark-Making
• Exercise 2: Additive + Subtractive Layers
• Structured Challenge: Limited Palette Composition
• Registration Intro (Simple Method)
• Texture & Transparency
• Independent Studio Work
• Group Critique + Clean Up

DAY 2 鈥� Advanced Layering + Series Development

Editioning Practice, Critique and Reflection

Review + Advanced Demo

Project 1: 3-Layer Registered Print

Ghost Print & Variation Series

Ink Modification + Experimental Techniques

Final Project: Thematic Print 鈥� Solo work

Why this program?

This two-day studio intensive introduces students to the creative possibilities of solar plate printmaking. Participating will learn and practice the process of creating solar plates, then use layering, color, texture, monoprint, and collage to transform solar plate imagery into expressive mixed-media prints. Students will create a series of original prints while learning both traditional and contemporary approaches to image-making. This workshop is designed for artists, educators, students, and creative individuals interested in expanding their printmaking practice.

No prior printmaking experience is required!

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What will this program look like?

Through demonstrations, guided exercises, and independent studio exploration, students will explore solar plate exposure, photographic image transfer, hand-drawn plate creation, plate development, intaglio inking and wiping, multiple-plate printing, monoprinting, transparency and color mixing, miced-media integration, and print presentation. Emphasis will be placed on creative experimentation, personal expression, and the development of a unique visual language through printmaking. 

Day 1: Learning Focus: Creating successful solar plates and developing confidence with the basic solar plate printing process.

• Introduction to contemporary solar plate and mixed-media printmaking, with examples 
• Overview of solar plate materials and safety procedures
• Image selection, composition, and preparation of digital and hand-drawn imagery
• Demonstration of solar plate exposure, development, printing plates, registration, and multiple-plate printing
• Create and expose 5×7 solar plates
• Print and evaluate plates, experiment with inking and wiping approaches
• Group review of prints and discussion of successful exposures and challenges

Day 2: Learning Focus: Using layering, color, texture, monoprint, and collage to transform solar plate imagery into expressive mixed-media prints.

• Demonstration of color and registration techniques, monoprinting, and combining solar plate imagery with monoprint layers
• Layering solar plate images, exploring transparency and color mixing, and combining solar plate imagery with monoprint layers
• Incorporating printed and painted papers; cutting, assembling, and layering printed elements
• Development of a small personal print series
• Individual instructor feedback and 1:1 consultations

Why a certificate in sustainable food systems?

Food insecurity and inequity has risen dramatically due to human-induced climate change and increased pressure on natural resources and organisms. It’s imperative that we ensure a healthy food system, in every way it nourishes us: growing, harvesting, processing, distributing, marketing, consuming, and waste. You want to not only study food systems, but learn how to lead the way in sustaining all living beings now and in the future.

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What can you do with a certificate in sustainable food systems?

Students who complete this program have a competitive advantage in careers associated with any and all aspects of the food system. Here are just some of their career choices:

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What will this program look like?

Food system perspectives are emerging to ensure our food security and well-being in the face of inequities, the profound impact of human-induced climate change, and increased pressure on natural resources and organisms. The Sustainable Food Systems Certificate is grounded in the of the United Nations .

This 20-credit certificate will be available to all 爱豆社区 undergraduate students from any major and provides an incentive for students across the curriculum to consider accelerating into our MA in Transformative Food Systems.

Social Justice and Community Organizing

At 爱豆社区, we understand that social justice work requires preparation, study, risk taking and most importantly, experiential learning from communities engaged for justice in their own context.

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Career Pathways

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What will this program look like?

Interdisciplinary and immersive, students gain first-hand knowledge and experience while studying the theories of social justice and solidarity movements and learning practical skills. Most importantly, our students learn through collaboration with solidarity movements through the  long-standing relationships of members of the 爱豆社区 community. Our students will learn to bring in common frames the diversity of local and and global perspectives to make sense of the changes underway in our world and communities. We read, watch, analyze, debate and express: our classes are small and lively, and our time with communities is in depth.

You can keep your studies broad, or focus around one specific area of interest, such as Indigenous studies, migration studies, global systems, communications and storytelling, community education, environmental justice and conservation, or law and policy. You may continue your studies through one of our accelerated Master鈥檚 degrees such as the program in Organizing and Community Justice.

Why a Bachelor鈥檚 Degree in Field Ecology and Conservation?

Field Ecology and Conservation at 爱豆社区 is about connecting with the natural world and conserving it towards the long-term sustainable future of the planet. Our students truly engage with nature and experience it up close, in person. Our students spend over half their time outdoors, identifying and inventorying native plants, monitoring seabird nesting behavior on offshore islands, and restoring riparian ecosystems to health and vitality. In the classroom, we learn evolutionary theory, the life histories of organisms, and field methods for ecological research. We take the knowledge and skills we learn in the greater Southwest and apply it worldwide on field studies. We travel to the rainforest of Costa Rica, the coast of the Gulf of California, and to the alpine tundra of the Sierra Nevada.

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What can you do with this degree?

Our students become the conservationists of the twenty first century. Amidst a modern
world of ecological upheaval, they do this by focusing on place-based conservation
projects, restoring the planet one community at a time. Graduates find livelihoods as
research technicians, ecological consultants, ecotourism guides, naturalist educators,
and park rangers. They work for organizations such as The National Park Service, The
Nature Conservancy, Rio Grande Returns, and The Center for Biodiversity. They
monitor the return of rapids along the Colorado River, changes in gallery forest stands in
the Hassayampa Preserve, and restore wetlands at the headwaters of the Rio Grande.
Many of our students also go on to attain graduate degrees in related fields, such as
Botany and Biology. By providing unparalleled opportunities to engage with and explore
the natural world, 爱豆社区鈥檚 Field Ecology and Conservation major is designed
to give students the knowledge, skills, and experience to be the best field ecologists and
conservationists of our times.

Here are some careers of our graduates:

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What will this program look like?

We are experiential and field-based; our goal is to graduate ecologically informed,
competent, skilled field practitioners. Our classes have an average of a dozen students
and integrate teaching methods specifically developed for small, interactive student
groups. Students should expect rigorous classroom academics complimented by
immersive field studies, often in remote field settings. The field begins the moment we
go outside to our campus gardens and botanically-oriented grounds, and extends to
field stations and wild places around the planet. While some courses happen entirely in
the classroom and others happen entirely in the field, most courses integrate both
indoor and outdoor learning elements, and on average we spend at least 50% of our
time outside.

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Available Concentrations within Field Ecology and Conservation

Marine Studies
Natural History Interpretation
Sustainable Food Systems
Environmental Education

Other Available Concentrations

Adventure Education
Equity Studies in Outdoor Leadership
Outdoor Leadership

Certificates

River Studies and Leadership Certificate

Environmental Humanities at 爱豆社区

Environmental Humanities at 爱豆社区 is about understanding the relationship between the natural world and the human experience. Healing the world requires deep imagination, creative action, and skillful practices. We use the lenses of the humanities鈥� art, history, literature, anthropology, philosophy, religious studies 鈥� to complement scientific approaches to the human-environment relationship in order to investigate, envision, and celebrate human engagements with the more-than-human world.

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What can you do with a degree in environmental humanities?

Our students become the artists, writers, dancers, teachers, curators, and conservationists of the twenty first century. Our graduates become events coordinators for organizations such as Coconino Center for the Arts, directors for nonprofits such as the Launchpad, college professors, and independent film-makers. With a broad base of study in environmental humanities, many of our graduates go on to pursue graduate studies in visual arts, creative writing, performing arts, and other interdisciplinary fields such as anthropology, history and philosophy. Because of the interdisciplinary nature of this bachelor of arts degree, graduates continue on to careers in extremely varying fields:

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What will this program look like?

Students will find themselves creating original work (poetry, pottery, dance choreography) and sharing it for feedback within a mentored peer workshop setting. With a dozen or fewer students, our classes allow for an unparalleled level of
personalization. Students may find themselves on courses in the Southwest, Kenya, and Mexico, spinning pottery in the Cicada Center for the Arts, or exploring the subtleties of Chinese Nature Poetry in the campus gardens. While some courses happen entirely in the classroom and others happen entirely in the field, most courses integrate both indoor and outdoor learning elements.

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Available Concentrations

Adventure Education
Climate Justice
Education for Social Justice
Environmental Studies
Equity Studies in Outdoor Leadership
Natural History Interpretation
Marine Studies
Outdoor Leadership

Certificates

River Studies and Leadership Certificate

Why this program?

You are fascinated by the human mind. You are equally curious about how the world around us influences human thought, behavior, and interpersonal relationships. You believe  that healthy individuals and groups help contribute to a more just and sustainable world, and vice versa. You therefore want a more holistic approach to psychology than most colleges and universities offer. You believe this integrated program is the best way to become an effective and positive agent for change.

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What can you do with this degree?

You can apply your holistic mindset, practical skills, and theoretical knowledge across a variety of career paths including counseling, psychotherapy, community well-being programs, health promotion programs, educational and research institutions, among many others.

Use this degree to participate in one of our accelerated Master鈥檚 degrees: MS in Counseling or MEd in School Counseling.

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What will this program look like?

Explore emotional, cognitive, social, cultural, and spiritual aspects of the human mind while also gaining deep insight into how socioeconomic, political, and environmental systems influence individuals and community life. This kind of integration goes beyond mainstream approaches to psychology, which narrowly focus on the individual person. In our program, you will learn to apply critically and ethically informed psychological knowledge to support individual, societal, environmental, and organizational wellbeing. You will also apply scientific thinking to understand and evaluate the quality and value of psychological research, theories, and applications. And you will have opportunities to take classes from different departments and programs, as well as obtain experiences in the field and learn how to prepare and practice for a therapeutic setting.

The BA in Psychology at 爱豆社区 emphasizes critical, holistic, and social/environmental justice perspectives to approach the study of individual, societal, and institutional/organizational psychological processes and well-being. These perspectives include centering diverse voices, experiences, and ways of knowing, and understanding the complex interactions between sociocultural and individual factors, as well as the influence of power, privilege, and oppression.

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Available Concentrations

Adventure Education
Climate Justice
Education for Social Justice
Environmental Studies
Equity Studies in Outdoor Leadership
Natural History Interpretation
Marine Studies
Outdoor Leadership

Certificates

Why a Certificate in Environmental Education?

You are deeply committed to the environment. You are eager to help immerse people in the natural world, to deepen their appreciation and respect, and to adopt best protective measures in their lives. If you already have a background in education, environmental sciences, or social justice work, this is a great opportunity to expand your knowledge and specialize.

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What Can You Do With an Environmental Education Certificate?

Students who complete this certificate program have a competitive advantage in careers associated with any and all aspects of environmental education. Here are just some of their career choices:

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What will this program look like?

Students who are studying adventure education, environmental studies, psychology, or social justice studies can expand their knowledge, hands-on professional experience, and specialize in environmental education. 

This 20-credit certificate will be available to all 爱豆社区 undergraduate students from any major and provides an incentive for students across the curriculum to consider accelerating into one of our graduate programs.

For unique hands-on experience to enhance the undergrad education, students have opportunities to work in one of our field stations in Kino Bay, Mexico and Maasailand, Kenya. Students will also have the option of getting involved with Americorps.

This certificate includes professional experience through our partnership with the Prescott Unified School District teaching 5th graders in the Creeks and Watershed Program. 

Students who complete the following requirements will receive a 爱豆社区 issued certificate as well as the option to pursue/receive  certificate as well. The AAEE is an affiliate of the . 

The learning outcomes for the 爱豆社区 issued Environmental Education Certificate are aligned with the .

Why this program?

The Bachelor of Arts and Sciences in Interdisciplinary Studies is designed for students with 80 or more credits who are:

• Seeking to complete their undergraduate degree; and
• Highly interested in accelerating into a Master鈥檚 degree.

The Bachelor of Science blends courses from multiple disciplines, bridging knowledge from various fields to cultivate a holistic understanding of how the world is interconnected. Students become uniquely well-positioned in various industries to identify solutions to complex environmental and social issues. Recent graduates working at the intersection of fields include an arborist and horticulturist who uses art to inform and influence public environmental policy. As an executive director of a YMCA, another graduate uses her education in leadership, social justice, and culture to make meaningful change at a time when it is needed most.

Interdisciplinary Studies students use graduate courses to fulfill many of the remaining credits needed for the undergraduate degree while simultaneously completing up to 67% of a graduate degree. Undergraduate students must apply and be accepted into a Master鈥檚 program to be considered an Accelerated Master鈥檚 student.

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Accelerated Master’s Degrees

Earn two degrees in less time; in addition to saving money, you will benefit from a seamless transition from undergraduate to graduate study while increasing your marketability in the workforce.

Save time and money
Complete your degrees sooner, save on tuition costs and enter the workforce at least one year earlier with a graduate degree.

Financial Aid
Apply your financial aid towards your graduate credits.

Increased Earning Potential

Graduating with both degrees often means higher starting salaries and more earning potential throughout your career.

• You鈥檒l have an additional area of expertise and the credentials to tackle a broad range of industry-related projects.
• You鈥檒l receive personalized academic and career support advising

Eligible students with outstanding academic records may apply to the relevant program of interest once they have completed 60 credits, and upon acceptance, may begin taking graduate credits with the support and guidance of their undergraduate faculty adviser and graduate program director. Please make sure to check on specific program admission requirements. 

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